Thursday, May 11, 2017

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)

Daniel Craig (007 in Casino Royale) plays gay and does full frontal in
this excellent film about gay painter Francis Bacon and his rough trade
lover, played by Craig. This British biographical drama probes the life
of painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992), critically acclaimed as the
outstanding British painter of the latter half of the 20th Century.
This unsympathetic portrait of Bacon (Derek Jacobi) begins when George
Dyer (Daniel Craig), a small-time criminal from working-class East End
environs, drops through a skylight to rob Bacon's studio -- and is
ordered into bed by Bacon. The two become a familiar couple at Bacon's
hangout, the Colony Room in Soho.
Bacon's sexual interests lean toward S&M, but as the cruel Bacon
loses interest in Dyer and begins to look elsewhere, the couple splits.
Left to his own devices, Dyer turns to drugs and alcohol -- and a tragic
suicide. Visual grotesqueries and a trancelike Ryuichi Sakamoto music
score capture the essence of Bacon's work (although paintings by Bacon
are not seen onscreen here).
The film is told in the form of a flashback from Bacon's successful 1971
retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris to a period in the mid-'60s.
Bacon biographer Daniel Farson (The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis
Bacon) served as consultant on the film.

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